Strange Histories - 2nd Edition

Taylor & Francis

Strange HistoriesThe Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds\nAuthor(s): Darren Oldridge\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138830813, 978-1138830813\nSynopsis\nStrange Histories is an exploration of some of the most extraordinary beliefs that existed in the late Middle Ages through to the end of the seventeenth century. Presenting serious accounts of the appearance of angels and demons, sea monsters and dragons within European and North American history, this book moves away from \""present-centred thinking\"" and instead places such events firmly within their social and cultural context. By doing so, it offers a new way of understanding the world in which dragons and witches were fact rather than fiction, and presents these riveting phenomena as part of an entirely rational thought process for the time in which they existed. \n\nThis new edition has bee.